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J. H. BEERS 8v J. RIDGE.

WATER ELBVATOR. No. 244,975. Patented Aug. Z, 1881.

INVENToHs- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. BEERS AND JOSEPH RIDGE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS; SAID RIDGE ASSIGNOR TO SAID BEERS.

WATER- ELEVATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 244,975, dated August 2, 1881.

Application filed April 15, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: would aid the discharge of water by reason ot o Be it known that we, JOHN H. BEERs and the bulk of the water being held near the JOSEPH RIDGE, of the city of Chicago, county mouth, and consequently having less distance of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented to travel in its escape from the bucket; but the 5 certain new and useful Improvements in Wainclination of the front and rear is found sufter-Elevators, of which the following is a full ficient. and complete description, reference being had The chain on which the buckets are carried to the accompanying drawings. is in the present example composed of alter- Our invention relates to improvements in nate rod-links d and flat links e. The buckets 1o water-elevators; and the objects of our invenare secured to the Hat links by means of extention are to provide certain combinations which sions or anges b ofthe sides, which extensions 6c shall remove the objections existing to such are pressed down over the edges of said links, devices as at present-constituted. We attain as shown in Fig. 4, and thus permitting the these objects by the combinations illustrated buckets to be easily removed or replaced.

15 in the accompanying drawings, in which- B represents a terra-cotta or iron wheel, hav- Figure lis aperspective view of our elevator, ing iianges of sufficient breadth to hold it in having one side of the curb omitted to give a position, and which is suspended in the lower View of the interior, a vertically sectional view part ofthe chain, near the bottom of the well, of a well or cistern also being given. Fig. 2 for the purpose of steadying said chain. The

2o is a side elevation, designed to show the buckair carried down by the buckets in their deets as heretofore constructed. Fig. 3 shows scent is of course discharged beneath the sur- 7o the form of our improved bucket. Fig. 4 shows face of the water as the buckets are filled, and sections of the chain. impure water is thus aerated and purified.

It has been the custom to construct the H is the drive-wheel, the periphery of which 2 5 bucket of uniform dimension in its cross-secis composed of alternate straight and outtion, excepting a short angle near the top, herewardly-curved divisions, which latter engage 7 5 inafter referred. A difficulty arises from this with the rod-links of the chain, as evidenced mode of construction, in the fact that in a reaby the drawings, and thus prevent said chain sonably rapid motion, in turning the crank, a from slipping on the wheel. rEhe short inclined 3o free discharge of the water from the bucket is face c at the top of the bucket is for the purprevented. Owing to the front or outer wall of pose of preventing contact of the latter with So the bucket being parallel to the rear, the wathe curved part of the wheel when brought toter, or that portion contained in the lower part gether. of the bucket when the motion is rapid, is In consequence of the chain not being held 3 5 caught in the angle fi, Fig. 2, and held until very taut by suspended wheeI B the buckets it has passed centrifugal action, and, consein their ascent are somewhat unsteady, and quently, also passed the proper place of diswhen permitted to ascend perpendicularly, as charge, (receiver D,) and is emptied into the in Fig. 4, the sudden contact with wheel H rewell mostly, instead of into the receiver. suits in considerable jar and consequent slop- 40 The manner of constructing our improved ping of water. To obviate this we place a bucket is to incline the outer face or wall, thereroller, R, (having journal-bearings in each side 9o by diminishing the bottom and enlarging the of the curb,) in such a position on the inner mouth of the bucket, thus permitting the disside of the chain that the latter is diverted charge of the Water tangentially,however rapid from its perpendicular direction, and comes in 4 5 the motion, the water being caught in the recontact with the wheel at an angle, whereby ceiver D, from which it empties through spout the forcible contact is in a great measure pre- J intoa vessel placed for its reception. Adimvented and the difculty almost entirely obinution of the bottom of the bucket and envia-ted.

L largement of its mouth by inclining its sides The bottoms of the buckets are each provided with a small perforation, whereby the Water is permitted to escape when the buckets are stopped7 and thus prevent freezing.

It Will be perceived from the foregoing description, and from reference to the drawings, that in our construction the outer faces, a, of the buckets A A are inclined, with relation to their rear or attaching faces, and to the links respectively to which the buckets are applied, and that the angular space I, hereinbefore referred to, does not exist, and hence that a superuous amount ofwater is notraised,or raised and discharged back into the Well, instead of into the receiver D. In other Words, the lower part of the bucket is so contracted or diminished that the bulk ofthe Water will stand near the mouth, ready to be discharged at the proper time into the receiver.

Having thus fully described our said improvements, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, in a Water-elevator, of buckets A A, having contracted lower parts or bottoms, their outer faces being inclined, as shown, While their inner faces are parallel with the chain, to which they are attached, the chain d e, a windlass over which the chain passes, and the Wheel B, suspended by the chain, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN H. BEERS. JOSEPH RIDGE. Witnesses:

S. B. CLARK, E. H. Konnte. 

